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hi there, i'm one of the folks who work with limor at adafruit and i'm familiar with this product. this is one of the few products that we had to sign many NDA's in order to develop, so we are not able to open source it as per the agreement(s). for that reason we do not put the OSHW logo on it. we will be doing more with BTLE and for those we will have fully open source designs.

ptorrone (638660) writes "CNBC has an interesting article about the growing trend of hardware companies going open-source "The open-source hardware movement is migrating from the garage to the marketplace. Companies that follow an open-source philosophy make their physical designs and software code available to the public. By doing so, these companies engage a wave of makers, hobbyists and designers who don't just want to buy products, but have a hand in developing them". Also in the article, New York City based, open-source hardware company, Adafruit, hit $20 million in revenue this year, tripling year over year."

coop0030 (263345) writes "Feel like someone is snooping on you? Browse anonymously anywhere you go with the Onion Pi Tor proxy. This is fun weekend project from Adafruit that uses a Raspberry Pi, a USB WiFi adapter and Ethernet cable to create a small, low-power and portable privacy Pi."Link to Original Source

hi "anonymous" - there isn't anyone that's worked with us at adafruit and limor that hasn't continued to work with us in some way that i am aware of. i've been part of just about every meeting or interaction on any of our products and limor has never said anything about "money" ever. if you've actually worked with her (or us) you'd know how bizarre your comment is. anyone is welcome to contact mitch altman, or jay silver or anyone we work with (we're very proud of all the makers we work with) - everyone at adafruit loves working here, it's a real family and you're free to contact any of us and me directly and i'll gladly have you chat with anyone here if you're actually someone we've worked with. no full time employee has left the company and we've never fired anyone:)

ptorrone writes "Limor "Ladyada" Fried of open-source hardware company Adafruit Industries was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneur Magazine. From the article — "Recognizable by her signature vivid-pink locks, Fried (or Ladyada, as she is known on the internet) is one of the dominant forces behind the maker movement--a legion of do-it-yourself-minded folks who create cool things by tweaking everyday technology. Last year New York City-based Adafruit did a booming $10 million trade in sales of DIY open-source electronic hardware kits"."Link to Original Source

ptorrone writes "Open-source hardware company, Adafruit, released an update to its educational Linux Distribution for Raspberry Pi. This is Adafruit's second distro, Occidentalis v0.2. Rubus occidentalis (The black raspberry). It is derived from Raspbian Wheezy August 16. Adafruit has made a few key changes to make it more hardware-hacker friendly! Truncated image — only 2.6G now to fit on any 4G card, raspi-config notice retained on boot, removed persistent wlan0 entry, password-change reminder on login, added RTC and lm-sensors kernel module, includes kernel modules for: DS1307, AD626 I2C digipots, HMC6352, BMP085, ADS1015 & PWM/Servo kernel module for easy PWM/Servo control on GPIO#18. The distro still includes: Updated Hexxeh firmware, I2C and hardware SPI support, I2C/SPI modules initialized on boot, sshd on boot, ssh keygen on first boot, runs avahi daemon (Bonjour client) and is called raspberrypi.local, Realtek RTL8188CUS wifi support and one wire support on GPIO #4 when loaded!"Link to Original Source

ptorrone writes "“Clone” in many of the the hardware circles I’m usually in means a knockoff, including the logo, etc. It’s made to fool people; however I think I will say “counterfeit” in addition to clone since there were a couple people on Slashdot that were confused about clone versus counterfeit. This might make it easier to explain exactly what I’m talking about. So this week I’m going to outline some counterfeits to look out for when you’re looking for a deal on an Arduino or any other types of open source hardware."Link to Original Source